Children as Teachers: Creating a New Relationship with Choices, Agreements, and Guilt-Free Parenting

Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, this book proves that education's key responsibility should be to create enthusiastic learners who will go on to thrive as adults in a swiftly-changing, dynamic world.

Covers various methods employed by educational research. This book includes material on complexity theory, ethics, sampling and sensitive educational research, experimental research, questionnaire design and administration with guidance, and, qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

Analyses some aspects of education and society in Mizoram. This book contextualizes education in the framework of a 'political economy of schooling in which important questions of not only agency and structure are considered, but the significant issues of the State, politics and of ideology and culture are adressed'.

Contains over 2025 words and short phases used during the US State Department's Survival, Beginner and Intermediate Russian Language courses, provided at the US Embassy, Moscow, Russia. Has additional pages of charts to assist students in learning Russian.

Examines the historical origins, the rationale behind practice-based research, the related theoretical and philosophical perspectives, and the major paradigms of action research. This book places emphasis on action research as a vehicle through which schools can build knowledge democracies.

Offers useful and practical advice on how lecturers' teaching and learning practices can take full account of a students' dyslexia and shows how they can incorporate an awareness of their needs into course design and delivery. This book is suitable for various lecturers in HE who wishes to meet their professional legislative obligations.

Most undergraduates in teacher training, education studies and other educational contexts undertake research projects during their course, in both school and non-school settings. Written specifically for this target audience, this new text makes clear references throughout to relevant courses and contexts.

Based on the theme that change agents, such as teachers and curriculum writers, have a key role in the translation of gender equity policy into gender equitable practices in science and mathematics education, this book is designed for use in university courses and by policy makers concerned with the gender/science/mathematics relationship.